SAP Crystal Reports 2011 For Beginners

Overview
If you have been looking for a beginners book that has a lot of step-by-step instructions and screen shots to let you know that you are mastering Crystal Reports 2011 design techniques correctly, this is the book for you. The Crystal Reports 2011For Beginners book is a self-paced guide to learning Crystal Reports and is written from the perspective that the reader has not created a report before or has not used Crystal Reports. There are time saving tips, advice and humor to help you over the rough areas, and enhance your Crystal Reports knowledge. In a user-friendly way, you will tackle the topics listed below and much, much more, without getting "stressed" out. You will learn the skills required to become an effective report designer.

- Basic reporting skills and report design techniques
- Database concepts
- Connect to a database
- Create reports using the wizards and from scratch
- Select, sort, group and summarize data
- Create charts
- Use parameter fields to create interactive reports
- Use the Formula Editor and Formula Workshop to manipulate data and create formulas
- Create Top N and Cross-Tab reports

Crystal Reports is the most popular report writing software on the market. The SAP Crystal Reports 2011 For Beginners will lead the novice and intermediate user through the features of Crystal Reports, which will take your skills to the next level. This book is not for Crystal Reports advanced or power users. To help you become familiar with the options, the SAP Crystal Reports 2011 For Beginners book contains over 600 screen shots that provide a visual tour of the software. This book does not cover the version of Crystal Reports that comes with Visual Studio 2010. Click here for that book.

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1 - Getting Started With SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Chapter 2 - Toolbars, Menus And Customization Options
Chapter 3 - Database Terminology And The Crystal Reports Workspace
Chapter 4 - Create Your First Report
Chapter 5 - Creating Reports From Scratch
Chapter 6 - Aligning Objects On A Report
Chapter 7 - Editing And Formatting Reports
Chapter 8 - Using Subsections, Special Fields And The Report Explorer
Chapter 9 - Selecting Records
Chapter 10 - Grouping, Sorting And Summarizing Records
Chapter 11 - Creating Custom Groups
Chapter 12 - Using The Report Creation Wizards
Chapter 13 - Printing And Exporting Reports
Chapter 14 - Formulas And Functions
Chapter 15 - Conditional Formatting
Chapter 16 - Using The Section Expert
Chapter 17 - Creating Charts
Chapter 18 - Formatting And Editing Charts
Chapter 19 - Parameter Field Basics
Chapter 20 - Creating Dynamic And Cascading Parameter Fields
Chapter 21 - Cross-Tab Reports
Chapter 22 - Additional Crystal Reports Functionality




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